"You talked too much."
Thud!
A muffled impact rang out.
Hidan's facial bones instantly collapsed into splinters, his entire face driven into the back of his skull.
The terrifying shock wave blasted him away like a cannonball. He smashed through three warehouses before becoming deeply embedded in a heap of rubble, his fate unknown.
"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"
Behind him, a sharp spear of lightning struck with an aura of destruction.
Kakuzu had attacked, opening with a killing move.
Gekkō Raito did not even turn his head. He merely swept his hand backward.
An eruption of pure chakra actually crushed the lightning spear in midair!
Everyone stared, dumbfounded.
Crushing Lightning Release barehanded? What kind of supernatural absurdity was this?!
Gekkō Raito turned around and formed hand seals with one hand, moving so fast that only afterimages remained.
Kakuzu's heart jolted. So fast!
Roar!
Water appeared out of thin air and instantly transformed into an enormous water dragon, which roared as it swallowed Kakuzu whole.
Before Kakuzu could struggle, Gekkō Raito's gaze sharpened.
"Ice Release: Absolute Zero."
Crack, crack, crack!
The enormous water dragon instantly froze into a crystal-clear ice dragon, sealing Kakuzu completely inside it.
Immediately afterward-
Bang!
The ice dragon exploded into a sky full of ice fragments.
Kakuzu's body shattered into countless pieces along with the ice.
Yet masses of black tendrils suddenly emerged from those scraps of flesh. They wrapped around a heart that was still beating and laboriously pieced together a battered body.
Kakuzu gasped for breath, his eyes filled with terror.
This Mist Ninja... was practically a tailed beast wearing human skin!
Whether in the power of his ninjutsu or the nature transformation of his chakra, he completely outclassed Kakuzu.
Kakuzu had only ever felt this suffocating pressure from the First Hokage all those years